Life in the Sandwich Islands: Or, The Heart of the Pacific, as it was and is |
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... Sandwich or Hawaiian Isl- ands , which form its subject - matter , hold about the same relation to other parts of the Pacific as the heart does to the rest of the human body . Second , because these Islands bid fair to become the ...
... Sandwich or Hawaiian Isl- ands , which form its subject - matter , hold about the same relation to other parts of the Pacific as the heart does to the rest of the human body . Second , because these Islands bid fair to become the ...
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... Sandwich Islands should yet be adopted into the great American Confederacy . Won as they have been from the lowest barbarism by Amer- ican missionaries , having had expended upon them in the process , nearly a million and a half of ...
... Sandwich Islands should yet be adopted into the great American Confederacy . Won as they have been from the lowest barbarism by Amer- ican missionaries , having had expended upon them in the process , nearly a million and a half of ...
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... ISLAND WORLD OF THE PACIFIC . Curious Work of Zoophytes - Sub - marine Gardens described — Living Specimens exhibited - Letting a Crab out of Prison - How the Corals grow - Theory for the Formation of a Coral Island - The Tumuli of a ...
... ISLAND WORLD OF THE PACIFIC . Curious Work of Zoophytes - Sub - marine Gardens described — Living Specimens exhibited - Letting a Crab out of Prison - How the Corals grow - Theory for the Formation of a Coral Island - The Tumuli of a ...
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... Sandwich Islands to America - Necessary leaning of the one upon the other for Years to come - Disastrous Effects to be apprehended if the Prop should be withdrawn - The true Policy of the Christian Church in the Missionary Enterprise ...
... Sandwich Islands to America - Necessary leaning of the one upon the other for Years to come - Disastrous Effects to be apprehended if the Prop should be withdrawn - The true Policy of the Christian Church in the Missionary Enterprise ...
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... Islands to China , California , Mexico , and South America - Vista of Futurity opened - Conjectures ventured ... Sandwich Islands for 1850 - Resources and Revenue of the Hawaiian Kingdom - Government Expenses , Trade and Commerce ...
... Islands to China , California , Mexico , and South America - Vista of Futurity opened - Conjectures ventured ... Sandwich Islands for 1850 - Resources and Revenue of the Hawaiian Kingdom - Government Expenses , Trade and Commerce ...
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Page 159 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 285 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 123 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: As thus; Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam : And why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...
Page 252 - It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 138 - Thy sinless land, Which eye hath never seen. Visions come and go; Shapes of resplendent beauty round me throng, From angel lips I seem to hear the flow Of soft and holy song.
Page 111 - twas an unimaginable sight ! Clouds, mists, streams, watery rocks and emerald turf, Clouds of all tincture, rocks and sapphire sky, Confused, commingled, mutually inflamed, Molten together, and composing thus, Each lost in each, that marvellous array Of temple, palace, citadel, and huge Fantastic pomp of structure without name, In fleecy folds voluminous, enwrapped.
Page 277 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Page 190 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of...
Page 151 - Through the high wood echoing shrill: Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state, Robed in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Page 348 - Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their ministers, officers, or authorities respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum, or shall be found, within the territories of the other...